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Chronicle Of History’s Greatest Carnage

Tombstone, by Yang Jisheng, is an uncomfortable read but a brave and important account of the huge human cost of Mao's Great Leap Forward

October 23, 2012

Books·China

The Fate Of A Forgotten Ally

Halik Kochanski's magisterial work on the cruel and chaotic legacy of World War II in Poland is history at its best

October 23, 2012

Books·History

Romney’s People

Two new works on the history of Mormonism by Paul C. Gutjahr and John G. Turner elucidate an element of 19th century American life too easily neglected

October 23, 2012

Books·Faith

The Dreyfus Affair Of Our Age

Salman Rushdie's account of the life under a fatwa highlights the moral cowardice of establishment figures of the Left and the Right

October 23, 2012

Books·Literature

No-Go Areas on the Campaign Trail

There are vital areas of American public life that received next to no attention on the hustings of either side, for very persuasive — if entirely cynical — reasons

October 23, 2012

Dispatches·US Politics

Legends of the Urban Landscape

A provocative new book by Jonathan Meades asks us to reassess the value of the under-appreciated metropolitan environment

September 26, 2012

Architecture·Culture & Anarchy

It’s Not Elementary, My Dear Watson

If you think that the discovery of the Higgs Boson solved all the mysteries of particle physics, think again

September 25, 2012

Cosmos·Science

Blood and Lies Behind the Iron Curtain

Anne Applebaum's magisterial Iron Curtain tells the largely untold story of Eastern Europe's suppression at the hands of the Soviets after the Second World War

September 25, 2012

Books·Communism·Europe·History

From Jesus Sect to Imperial Faith

Two new works by Geza Vermes and Peter Brown eloquently and enthusiastically chart the progress of Christianity from Jesus Christ to the height of the Byzantine empire

September 25, 2012

Books·Faith·The Catholic Church